Property News · April 3, 2022

Here come the lorikeets! How garden trends can change the local wildlife


In the 1980s, there were no rainbow lorikeets in Canberra; now they’re one of the city’s most-sighted birds. But they’re not the only successful urban adaptorGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastMy bird-watching friend Simon is telling me about the parrots he sees on his daily walks around Canberra. It is a long list, which includes five types of cockatoos. When he gets to the tenth parrot species – “red-rumps. Everyone loves those” – he stops to think. The eleventh is the rainbow lorikeet.“They’re newcomers,” he says. “And they’ve really taken off.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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